These guidelines are recommendations to achieve the best performance from a media player.
These are general recommendations and not limitations. Performance isn't guaranteed and limitations will depend on the devices specification, please refer to manufacturer documentation.
Video
- MPEG-4 H.264/AVC (.mp4)
- WebM VP9 (.webm)
- Frame rate: 30 fps
- Bitrate (constant): 10 Mbps (75/Mb/minute)
- Maximum bitrate (constant): 20 Mbps (150Mb/minute)
- Profile: H.264 baseline profile video and AAC low-complexity profile audio.
Image
- JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
- PNG (.png)
- WebP (.webp)
- Maximum resolution: 4K - 3840x2160 or 2160x3840
- Color options: 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA
Device Limitations
Samsung
- General Specifications
- Media Specifications
- Video Specifications
- Web Engine Specifications
- Some Tizen TEP APIs for specific privileges functionalities are unavailable at the public level, e.g. http://tizen.org/privilege/tv.audio.
Specific limitations
Specific limitation due to manufacturer video decoder limitations:
- 4K video playback is currently unsupported.
- Seamless video transitions is only fully supported in video only-playlists. Fully seamless transitions between video and other content types is currently unsupported.
BrightSign
- Supported Video Formats and Codecs
- Supported Video Modes
- Optimizing Video Quality
- 4K Video Quality Overview
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Sony and Philips Android
- Transitions between content is not always fully gapless. This is caused when there is low hardware performance resource available.
- UHD content requires more hardware performance resource meaning video frame rate and general playout performance can be impacted.